lead time

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The lead time between chip orders and delivery is two months or more.
芯片自下单到交货大约需要两个月或者更长的时间。
Subtracting the lead time from that date yields the the Trigger Point when upgrade work should begin.
从日期字段中减去这个筹建时间，就应该是这个升级应该开始的触发时间。
This could be a far-off cure for diabetics who often need pancreas transplants and a more realistic cure for kidney patients who have more lead time when they are in need of a transplant.
这可能对于经常需要移植胰腺的糖尿病病人还起不了太大帮助，但是对于可以有足够时间来移植肾脏的病人来说，还是比较有帮助的。

He feels that in time it will lead to the end of slavery in the United States.
Fate will permit no apocalypse before its time, before the necessary and painful steps that have to lead up to the Last Judgment.
命运在来之前不会允许人们去启示别人，必须要自己去经历必要而又痛苦的那几步,才能走向最终的审判。
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And this'll lead into what you're going to see next time as well as what you're going to do tomorrow.
这会对于你,接下来要学到的,和明天要做的东西起一个引导作用。
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PaulDeba, You are absolutely correct in the lead time it takes to develop a business internationally.
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the time between the design of a product and its production, or between ordering a product and receiving it

Lead time is the time between the original design or idea for a particular product and its actual production.
Lead time is the period of time that it takes for goods to be delivered after someone has ordered them.

提前期
These factors include: information decentralization lead time, unreasonable supply chain structure.
通过分析算例中的数据得出产生牛鞭效应的因素，主要包括：信息分散化、提前期、不合理的供应链结构等。
生产周期
前置期

提前期
Then the describing of the production lines and the important parameters of making plan such as the lead time are studied.
对集成后的系统中生产线的描述,以及计划编制中的重要参数如提前期进行了研究。
前置时间